Position summary: Industry: Scientific, Research & Development
Job category: HR Administration
Location: Randburg
Contract: Fixed Term Contract
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
Introduction: Mintek has an exciting career opportunity for an HR Administrator: Remuneration & Benefits.
The successful candidate will be responsible for administering employee information processing through creation, maintaining, updating, and retention of employee information/files both manually and electronically.
Ensuring % data integrity, whilst adhering to policies, procedures and legislation framework.
All suitably qualified and experienced candidates are invited to apply.
Responsibilities
- Operations: Maintain the employee master data throughout the employee life cycle from joining to leaving, while adhering to relevant policies, procedures and legislation.
- HR Information System updates - Employee onboarding, promotions, transfers, contract renewals, terminations, changes in conditions of employment, leave administration.
- Document processing, data capturing, and filing to ensure we record all employee transactions.
- Improve administrative procedures and documentation.
- Assist with time, attendance and leave administration requirements.
- Ensure employee data complies with reporting requirements, such as EE/BEE/DoL, Remuneration Analysis.
- Maintain a meticulous and updated employee filing system for all employee movements.
- Benefits Administration Processes: Work in collaboration with benefit administration consultants on legislation developments pertaining to pension, medical and risk benefits matters.
- Ensure that employees have access to, and receive Employee Benefits Advisory Services.
- Administer benefit claims as per policies and regulations.
- Update employee files with the latest beneficiary information (manually and electronically).
- Governance and Risk: Ensure compliance with internal audit requirements of the organisation.
- Ensure compliance with policies and procedures for clean audits.
- System compliance with data security and privacy requirements – POPI ACT.
- Legislative Requirements: Interpret and apply statutory regulations and maintain HRIS system data changes.
- Advise and guide managers and staff on company policies relating to conditions of employment.
- Maintain compliance with all relevant employment laws and regulations.
- Maintain the integrity of Employment Equity Reports.
- Facilitate audits/verifications by providing records and documentation to auditors.
- Reporting: Assist departments with aggregated and analysed data/reports according to stakeholder specific requirements.
- Develop and maintain ad hoc reports to provide HR and other stakeholders with timely and accurate data.
- Report on Absenteeism, Sick Leave.
- Report on Employee Movements.
- Provide regulatory reports BEE, EE, and Remuneration Analysis.
- People Development: Contribute towards guiding, coaching and mentoring interns in the department.
- Customer Service: Assisting staff with Employee Information related queries.
- Providing Support with Employee Self Service Portal (ESS), and Manager Self Service Portal (MSS).
- Providing information for monthly, quarterly and yearly statistics for various stakeholder reporting requirements.
- Efficient processing of benefits during onboarding, information updates, and withdrawals for pension fund, medical aid, death and disability claims.
- Conduct monthly/quarterly induction presentations for new employees.
- Coordinate onsite presentations for medical aid, risk benefits, financial planning.
- Administration: Maintain employee master data throughout the employee life cycle.
- Ensure HR admin deadlines related to employee hire, termination and movements are met.
- Input employee related data into HRIS.
- Verify and approve all HR administration data and supporting documentation.
- Ensure readily accessible electronic and manual HR records are maintained.
- Audit: Interact with relevant HR section and Payroll to ensure clean audit process.
- Support internal and external auditors in verification of discrepancies.
- Business processes and workflow: Assist in analysing HR business processes, workflow and documents accordingly.
- Give inputs into policies and procedures.
- Filing: Ensure an up-to-date and accurate filing system is maintained.
- Overtime: Open and close overtime claim sheet for Division.
- Verify overtime pre-authorised with actual claimed.
- Leave management: Verify and audit maternity, sick, annual leave applications.
- Control and check data for leave and sick leave.
- Policies and procedures: Input towards updating of Policies and procedures.
- Participate in policy and procedure reviews.
- Queries and complaints management: Handle employee queries and complaints regarding HR administration.
- Reports: Compile and submit HR admin reports.
- Draw relevant reports from HRIS.
- HRIS Systems: Maintain master data.
- Process hourly rates for contract/temporary/fixed term employees.
Education:
B degree in Human Resources or relevant field.
Certificate in Payroll Administration (mandatory).
Experience:
3-5 years' experience working with HR information systems & Payroll Inputs.
In-depth knowledge of HR business processes.
Training:
Competent User of Pay Space, IFS, Time and Attendance, Intermediate Ms Office.
Legal:
Basic Conditions of Employment, HR Policies and Procedures, Payroll and Leave Management.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Ability to work with stakeholders such as employees, divisions, management and external vendors.
A high level of expertise in labour/employment legislation.
HR administration processes knowledge and application.
Excellent analytical skills.
Competency Required:
Strong analytical skills.
Strong administrative efficiency.
Written and verbal communication skills.
Flexibility.
Initiative.
Organised, thorough and systematic.